Guest guest Posted April 14, 2001 Report Share Posted April 14, 2001 Hi, I just felt the need to comment on this situation. I own a house that we were unable to sell when we had to move across town and so we rent it out. The person we rent it to is a high ranking officer in the US Army. The hot water heater failed and had to be replaced so we talked while waiting for the repair yesterday, and I felt that he had some comments that I found extremely interesting: 1 He stated that the mission was indeed peaceful and not even noteworthy. 2 The Chinese pilot had been approaching and even harassing US planes in the area previously. 3 He felt that the arrogant and aggressive demand of an apology by the Chinese was indicative of Chinese guilt or an attempt to get money from US. 4 The US plane did not hit the Chinese plane rather the Chinese plane charged and hit the American plane. Personally, I think that the Chinese should have apologized to the US. Get email at your own domain with Mail. http://personal.mail./ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 19, 2001 Report Share Posted April 19, 2001 gjlist, Carolhook@a... wrote: > It depends upon whose word you take as being truthful, and that makes a big difference in whom you'll believe. Communist-controlled government or Democratic Republic of, by, and for free people, which one has more status to lose by telling the truth? Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!! Namaste!! this ongoing argument over a politically motivated dispute btw China and US is not only a waste of Jyotish web space, but a waste of time and effort...as well as a debasing of the lofty purposes of this list. now let me add to the wastage a little! ONCE only! when such comments as those above are given, one is immediately reminded of the Iran Contra Arms Drugs Scandal...and who was to be believed in that case...Did Ronnie Rayguns REALLY know nothing about it? and who WAS in charge of all this...Bush Senior!and did his boys have any support positions in all of this?Just ask yourselves which two southern states have the most drugs entering into the country thru themselves.....you guessed it...Florida and Texas...now which laundered the most drug money....Florida and Texas (in the south)...and which states provided the most presidential campaign funds...you guessed it again Florida and Texas...and which states do the Bushes run....Florida and Texas...interesting or...and which state DECIDED the Amerikan election....Florida, run by Jeb Bush...hmmmmmmm does any one see a pattern forming here? Should we REALLY trust GW's version of ANYTHING? Saddam Hussein believed the Amerikans would leave him alone after he sounded them out about his intentions re Kuwait, and was told it was no big deal, and that they weren't really interested...he thought Amerika was his "friend"...next thing he knew...Gulf War... we could go back even further....let's take a look at the second world war and just WHY Amerika refused to enter into the war until FORCED to by Japan.... the plain facts are, that the Big Amerikan industrialists, capitalists, and financiers were making entirely TOO much money dealing arms and parts to BOTH sides of the European conflict...and once again they had let Hitler believe that they were his "friends"...and that he was under no threat from them for rearranging Europe a little...it was making just way too much money for the people who live in the land of the "free" and home of the "brave"....just check out your Rockefellars, and your Duponts, and your Carnegies and Morgans...just take a little look at the dealings of Ford and General Motors...and Standard Oil,and check out how the German war machine ran on AMERIKAN tetra-ethyl lead gasoline, produced by an Amerikan designed and set up factory in Germany...and fuelling Ford vehicles in the war machine. German bombs, bombsights, and airplanes had parts manufactured by ITT....Standard Oil had a deal with IG Farben which stipulated that Standard would not develop a synthetic rubber (which IG Farben AG was working on) and IG Farben would not develop whatever that Standard Oil was working on...it even got so that the War department apparently told Standard Oil that its refusal to develop synthetic rubber was a major stumbling block in the Amerikan "war" effort....and that if the war was lost to Germany...Standard Oil would be very much responsible...they still wouldn't work on synthetic rubber, because commercial interests were far more important than national interests...and to capitalists look the same...in fact the CIA was founded by these same Nazis in the Amerikan attic...as a means to cover up the shady dealings of these major players in the financial and capitalistic games....they didn't want it let out that they had been hand in hand working with both the enemy and their own side...(as originally the "enemy" had been a "friend".) but come the 1960's, and these same companies were presssing the US government for war reparations...for damages incurred to their industrial plants in Germany during the war, which were producing German war materiel...and guess what...they got paid....millions and millions of dollars...because the Government knew what REALLY had been going on...but has been producing their "Dick meets Jane" historical versions of the whole war ever since...to cover up their own criminal activities...not only the Nazis in Germany have a lot to hide.... the Nazis in the Amerikan closet do too! so it begins to appear that Amerika is a VERY TREACHEROUS FRIEND indeed....they'll sell you arms arms arms...but what they won't tell you is that they're also selling arms to your enemy "Bill"...over the hill and down the way...so that you can both have fun blowing each other up....oh yes this is so ethical! and then you can ask me again just whose version of events we should believe....NEITHER!!!!They both have an agenda to press on to the rest of us...both China and the US can benefit from having an enemy...each other!!...this will pump billions of dollars into the pockets of GW Bush and his capitalist friends who support the arms trade... just remember the charts for the Bush "inauguration"...and tell me he isn't interested in having an enemy...no matter what it takes...lies are great for that...slightly stretched truth is even better....and truth which is partially told, but keeping back just the right items....that's the best...tried and true by your beloved CIA...and the White house for years and years....why should it be any different this time??? if you Amerikans expect the rest of the world to automatically buy the Bush version of reality, you will be in for a BIG disappointment...because unlike you, who voted for him, the rest of the world sees him as a potential despot, and a war monger....not to mention a death-penalty, and prison-crazed ex-governor of Texas...the state with the most prison inmates, per capita, of any in the union....does this sound like a healthy way to run a State, much less a country??? Just because Amerika is the only bully on the block doesn't mean that Amerika is always right! And do you REALLY think that the government in the US or ANYWHERE is run by the people, for the people, and of the people????? You mean you bought all that propaganda that the Goverment has been peddling for the last two centuries????...US Government has ALWAYS been by the elite, wealthy, capitalistic types and FOR the elite capitalistic types...NEVER by, OR for, the common man...the common man exists only as fodder for the capitalists....that hasn't changed in two centuries...what has changed is the cute little stories they use to disguise the trap... as John Lennon used to sing: "You think you're so clever and classless and free, But you're all f-ing peasants as far as i can see...." who do you think this was directed to, my dear Amerikan friends? Now please let us not have any more useless political discussions on this, a jyotish list...perhaps the best we can hope for is to agree to disagree.... thank you for your kind patience in reading this....sorry if i threw some cold water on your bonfire....but after reading all the glib repeatings of the standard media B.S., which i would hope NEVER to see on such a list as this one, i felt it necessary to introduce a little perspective...take off your blinders, Amerika and look at the rest of the world....how do THEY see you...the land of the "free" and home of the "brave"...is there a reason that Amerika is NOT the favourite-most country in the world????just ask yourselves that one in the quiet of a starlight night....when such silly things as patriotism, and "My country tis of Thee" assume their real significance in the Universal Order...we think we mere specks of dust are SO important....and yet our essential fragility is without doubt... we are but little birds perched timorously upon a dry twig, enjoying the "fruits" of our karmas...and at ANY moment that twig may break...and we will have to fly away...to our next incarnation...that will show us what is REALLY important, and what is mere frippery! You decide yourselves, whether political disputes are a worthy engagement for this little bird perched on a dry twig....who never knows when it will break...(think of our friend Natabara for example...that is EACH ONE OF US dear sisters and brothers...at ANY MOMENT, exactly the same or another more "interesting" fate may hit any one of us....Do we want to have wasted our valuable lives on political disputes????????)...or would it be much better to have developed a real, lasting, loving relationship with the Beloved Deity???you decide... Perhaps it might be of more value to honestly, and with great passion, pursue your heart's dream...and leave the politics to the crooks who love it (unless of course YOU are one of those crooks...in which case...have fun on your dry twig!!) in the Divine Mother's Love, and in Her Service, as ever, Your Own Self, visvanathan Om Amrtesvaryai Namah!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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